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Resounds: DIY Culture, Superhero Art

Anna Paige

On this episode of Resounds, co-hosts Anna Paige and Corby Skinner look at DIY culture in Billings and a new art exhibit featuring fresh and unusual takes on some iconic superhero imagery.

First, Anna and Corby talk with three Billings entrepreneurs—Phil Griffin, Ty Herman, and YPR's Brie Ripley—who have embraced a "do-it-yourself" culture, creating the arts website Waste-Division and a youth advocacy group called Beatnik City Council, as well as taking the arts and music festival known as Richard Dreyfest to new heights with more acts and inventive venues. 

Credit Yellowstone Art Museum

Following that, Corby talks with Yellowstone Art Museum Director Robyn Peterson about My Hero! Contemporary Art and Superhero Action, a new exhibit at the museum featuring artists working in a wide variety of media to celebrate and re-contextualize the iconic imagery of the superhero.

Corby Skinner is an independent marketing professional with an enormous capacity for assessing issues and creating positive, effective messages.
Anna Paige is a Montana-based journalist, poet and educator. She is originally from Wyoming and has lived in Billings for more than a decade, where she co-founded Young Poets, winner of the 2021 Library of Congress Award for Literacy.
Ken Siebert began work at YPR in 1992 as a part-time, evening board operator. He was hired full time in 1994.